Rain Rain Rain

I think we must be catching up for the lack of rain the last couple of years. I don't know if your near me, but its not quit raining here. Well, it'll be beautiful for a little bit, but then its back to thunderstorms and lots of rain.

Last night, we were in Greenville and headed home around 9:30pm. It was ugly outside, I tell ya. Well once we were 1 mile on the road, I swear we were seeing a tornado. It was right over the trees and it was huge. You could see when the lightening hit it, the clouds were dipped down like a funnel would be. It may not have really been one, but it sure looked like it and the wind had crazily picked up. So Shawn floored it after passing a cop, go figure, and we got outta there. No, we didn't get stopped. The cop was in front of us and had pulled over to turn around. So we floored it after that. But we passed an awful wreck. There's a part on the interstate that is obviously floodable, and there was a small section that was flooded, and anyone passing through at normal interstate speeds would go flying. There were like 3-4 cars over in the ditch because they had hit that water. It was bad. I'm glad we slowed down. That was really dangerous.

I tell ya, I love watching storms from my window at home or front porch or garage, but not in the car. Its kinda scary. But anyway, I'm not complaining about all this rain, cause Lake Hartwell is almost filled back up after being so low for so long. I know alot of homeowners are very happy right now, especially those whose docks have been burried in mud for the last two years. And we can actually walk down to the lake and fish without having to wrestle with weeds and stuff. I can't wait to walk down there to see how high the water has come : )

I'm tired...

OMG, I did not want to get out of bed this morning for work. I think I hit the alarm a total of 8 times, and managed to only be about 10 minutes late. I'm starting to regret changing my holiday to the Friday before my week long vacation. Since I work on the BILO account but am actually employed by another company, our holidays are different. We receive Memorial Day off but BILO doesn't, so between the 6 of us, we have to split up and some have to work on the holiday. So I took my holiday Friday before last so we could leave early for vacation. Whooo, I'm tired.

Looks like I might be starting back up leading worship. I did it for a little while last year, but kinda quit, cause its so easy to just let Shawn do it, lol. But he's going to be helping the youth start up a jam up youth band on Wednesday nights now, while I possibly take the adult congregation. I did it Wednesday before last cause Shawn couldn't be there, and I wasn't expecting to lead, I was just asked at the last moment. After freaking a little, I did it. And weirdly enough, it was nice, kinda refreshing. I think there's a calling for me to do that cause everytime I do it, its like very fulfilling in a way, but its just getting over the fear of being in front of people. And I guess for those that saw me at Restoration, you probably thinking, she gets nervous? But YEAH, in all reality, I enjoy being behind the scenes more than on stage, but I love to sing and can never get away from it, so I'm still struggling in what this voice is supposed to be doing. I laugh when people are like, you should try out for American Idol. That's how you know they don't know much about singing, lol. I ain't that good and don't even desire such a spotlight. So I don't know. I know what I would love to do, but it would have to be a complete God thing for it to come to pass. I still believe dreams can come true. And maybe one day it will.

Vacation to the Bahamas

Our vacation was great! We went on a cruise to the Bahamas. We first spent the weekend in Daytona beach where we stayed with Chris/Nikki's Aunt. We got to lay on the beach and do some fun stuff there. Then we headed to Port Canaveral to board our ship. The first day we were supposed to go to Cococay which is a private island exclusive to Royal Carribean cruise lines, but they had to push it off to Thursday because they said weather was going to be bad. So we went on to Nassau. Nassau is nice, but its very commercialized. Kinda reminded me of when I went to Israel. But there are lots of parts that are beautiful, such as in the image above. This was a beach exclusive to the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, a small island that connects to Nassau. We toured the hotel; they have a casino, shopping, and a nice aquarium inside the hotel. Very nice.

We attempted Cococay on the last day of our cruise, and they said weather was still bad, so we didn't get to go there at all. But it was beautiful on the ship, so we're guessing they were running out of fuel and didn't wanna stop at another island, lol.

I sware I almost died in the taxi cab. Dude don't know how to drive. Well...none of them know how to drive there. It was crazy! Oh, and I couldn't find one last american on that boat, employee that is, that could tell me how I could watch the finale of american idol on the ship. I couldn't believe no one knew what I was talking about. Where are all those 80 million people that vote on that show?? Not on my cruise boat. So needless to say, I missed the finale. But I figured Chris would win, even though Adam sings rings around him. Christian/gay issue or not, its a singing competition. Oh well.

I missed Caitlyn so much. I believe next years trip will include some kiddy activities so Caitlyn can go. I thought I may have been sea sick on the boat to begin with, but I was just Caitlyn-sick. I did not want to leave her. So I was glad to get back and see her again. Or maybe it was that my mom made me sign a death release in case we died. I was so nervous for the first day on that cruise...thought I was gonna die, lol... The last day, we went through some storms that evening and the boat was so rocky. I wish you all could see the video Nikki took of the pictures on the wall going back and forth. It was hilarious, but not to Chris, he was running back and forth to the bathroom. Poor thing : )

Mother's Day

I hope all the mother's had a HAPPY Mother's Day! I had a pretty good one myself. I didn't have all the special treatment and stuff, but I wasn't really home. I went down to see my mom and go to church with her on Sunday. I haven't done that since I lived at home. So it was kinda nice to get to spend that special day with her. We went to go get pedicures after church, before meeting at my brother's for lunch, but they were packed (if you can believe that) : ) So we just shopped around and left to go eat.

I got to shop at my favorite place again, the America's Thrift Store. They need to make more of those stores. You get so used to shopping at places like that where a shirt cost $2 to where you can't even shop off the Wal-mart clearance rack anymore cause its too expensive, lol, guess I'm spoiled. But I got me lots of jewelry and some cute pants. I also went to this place in my town that takes clothes (any season) and gives you store credit. There, I got a formal cruise dress. It is sooo cute. It's spaghetti strap and v-neck black with a hot pink strip thing underneath the tata's, and from there down it's silk zebra striped. OMG, it's too cute. And if I could just figure out how to get an image from my phone to the computer, I'd upload one so you could see, but I'm not that technically advanced : P

But we have 4 more days till cruise time, well, Daytona Beach time, then the cruise on Monday. I so can't wait. I'm gonna start packing tonight so I'm sure to not forget anything.